(October 29, 2014 at 8:58 am)Chuck Wrote: This is normally where one would point out the fact that Antares actually uses 50 year old NK-33 rocket motors manufactured by the Soviet Union in the 1960s for her own aborted lunar landing program, Held in storage after the program's cancellation, and finally purchased and refurbished by Aerojet in California, and snicker at the wisdom of using allegedly crappy cast off soviet made junk.
The "trick" is in knowing which corners to cut. I'm guessing the rocket motor itself is not one of those corners.
